espeakup command not found

In this troubleshooting guide we learn how to fix espeakup command not found error message

Introduction

When you run more command in linux terminal / console, you get the following error message

espeakup: command not found

or when using sudo you get the following error message

sudo: espeakup: command not found

In Ubuntu espeakup is provided by espeakup package.

espeakup is:

Espeakup is a daemon that connects speakup kernel modules to the espeak software speech synthesizer through the /dev/softsynth device.

To fix this problem, we can install more using the command below.

sudo apt-get -y install espeakup

This command might take some time to finish depending on your machine internet connection.

You can also use apt command to install espeakup.

sudo apt -y install espeakup

Or if you have aptitude installed you can use the following command.

sudo aptitude install espeakup

In this tutorial we learn how to fix espeakup command not found error in Ubuntu / Debian / Kali Linux or Raspbian distribution.